CNN Host Wonders If Karen Pence Deserves Security Protection

The First Family gets Secret Service protection, as does the Second Family. I thought everyone agreed that it’s a normal, reasonable thing.

Nope. CNN’s John King isn’t sure why Karen Pence gets Secret Service protection, because, um, reasons.

He “went there” during a panel discussion on Karen teaching at a Christian school again. King was all, “Does it matter that all taxpayers pay for housing? All taxpayers pay for her Secret Service protection? It’s not her fault that she needs protection, this is the world we live in. But all taxpayers pay for, subsidize her life.”

“Does it matter?” he added.

Um WHAT? Is that seriously a debate he wants to have right now?

Apparently so.

SiriusXM correspondent Olivier Knox appeared confused by the question.

Knox responded after a noticeable pause, “Do her First Amendment freedoms get curtailed [because] taxpayers pay for her accommodations and her security? I don’t know that a lot of people would sign on to that.”

King then said “everything is fair debate” because “we live in a democracy,” before wrapping up the segment. NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck told Fox News that King’s defense was “absolutely ludicrous.”

It sounds like King believes she shouldn’t get protection, because she’s a homophobic bigot and that’s her own problem. That’s what he WANTED to say. Let’s be real.

“It’s about the very security of the Second Family and suggesting that there should be any kind of debate about it being taken away just because of not only what they believe, but what they believe when it comes to faith is disgusting and emblematic of the broader media disdain for Christians who aren’t socially liberal,” Houck said. “The attacks on the Pence family and Judeo-Christians needs to stop.”

For real.

This is horrifying and dangerous. https://t.co/i2y5MxNTAr

— Inez Stepman (@InezFeltscher) January 18, 2019

That’s where the left is at. Soak it in.

h/t Fox News